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The Lived Experience: Keith & Rose

Rose and Keith describe how the arts have taken on an increasingly bigger role in their lives since Keith's diagnosis of primary progressive aphasia.

Watch Rose and Keith as they describe how arts-based practices have taken on an increasingly bigger role in their lives since Keith’s diagnosis of primary progressive aphasia (PPA), a language-based dementia.

How do you think that your connections with the people around you would be affected if your language abilities were compromised? What do you think would be the effect of you, your family and friends spending some time together engaging in an arts-based activity?

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Dementia and the Arts: Sharing Practice, Developing Understanding and Enhancing Lives

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